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  • Movie Night: The Wiz

    Gingko Lawn

    Join us for the first Movie Night of the summer! Bring your picnic blankets, bug spray, and snacks, and enjoy a free, family-friendly movie under the evening sky on the Gingko Lawn. No registration is necessary. We’ll be watching the classic The Wiz (1978), starting at 8:30pm. Come early at 7pm for nature-based pre-movie activities with The Pennsylvania Game Commission and info table with the West Philadelphia YMCA.

  • Movie Night: Migration

    Gingko Lawn

    Join us for a summertime Movie Night! Bring your picnic blankets, bug spray, and snacks, and enjoy a free, family-friendly movie under the evening sky on the Gingko Lawn. No registration is necessary. We’ll watch the animated film Migration (2023), starting at 8:30pm. Come early at 7pm for nature-based pre-movie activities with The Pennsylvania Game Commission.

  • Movie Night: Encanto

    Gingko Lawn

    Join us for the last Movie Night of the summer, in partnership with KenCrest and Envision New Possibilities,! Bring your picnic blankets, bug spray, and snacks, and enjoy a free, family-friendly movie under the evening sky on the Gingko Lawn. No registration is necessary. We’ll watch Encanto (2021), starting at 7:30pm. Come early for “Intro to Birding” with  The Pennsylvania Game Commission  from 6-7pm

  • Community Movie Night: Wicked

    Upper Meadow

    Join us for the first movie night of the summer! Bring your picnic blankets, bug spray, and snacks, and enjoy a free, family-friendly movie under the evening sky. No registration is necessary; free concessions while supplies last. We’ll be watching Wicked (2024), starting at 8:30pm. Arrive early at 7pm for nature-based pre-movie activities with The Pennsylvania Game Commission, along with information resources from enVision New Possibilities. Plus, don’t miss a free Herbal First Aid workshop with Folami Irvine. , with a focus on natural support for toothaches, muscle pain, and stress. Hands-on projects for this workshop include herbal oils for toothache, tension-relieving rice socks,

  • CANCELED Community Movie Night: Mufasa

    Upper Meadow

    Update on 7/25: due to the high heat index, this event has been canceled.   Join us for July’s free community movie night! Bring your picnic blankets, bug spray, and snacks, and enjoy a free, family-friendly movie under the evening sky. No registration is necessary; free concessions while supplies last. We’ll be watching Mufasa (2024), starting at 8:30pm. Come early at 7pm for information resources from enVision New Possibilities. plus a hands-on Heart, Womb & Brain Tea Blends workshop with Folami Irvine—make & take your own custom tea blends with herbs like hawthorn, red raspberry leaf, and gotu kola.  

  • Community Movie Night: A Minecraft Movie

    Upper Meadow

    Join us for the last free community movie night of the summer! Bring your picnic blankets, bug spray, and snacks, and enjoy a free, family-friendly movie under the evening sky. No registration is necessary. We’ll be watching A Minecraft Movie (2025), starting at 7:30pm. Arrive early for free activities for the whole family: 5-7pm: stilt walking program with Sistah Mafalda 6-7pm: Back-to-School Herbal Kit 6-7pm with Folami Irvine.  Create a home or student herbal kit for immunity, focus, and calm with blends for immunity, calmness spray, and mini kits to take with you. 6-7:30pm: community information resources from  The Pennsylvania

  • Free Movie on the River – “Hocus Pocus”

    Glen Foerd 5001 Grant Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join Riverfront North Partnership and Glen Foerd for a fun, spooky, family-friendly evening along the river, watching the original Hocus Pocus. The movie will begin around 7pm. The fun begins at 5:30pm with free craft-making for the kids, thanks to our Lilly P.A.D.S. instructors. Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase. So bring a blanket or chairs, or maybe your favorite Halloween costume, and get ready for a spooky, fun evening! This event will take place on the waterfront lawn by the Main House. Please register in advance.

    Free